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REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 

 Visitors. 



During the year* the number of visitors to the Museum Building has 

 been 174,225, or an average of 5G3 persons each day, and to the Smith- 

 sonian building 88,9G0, or an average of 288 each day, as shown in the 

 following table : 



Month. 



Museum 

 Building. 



Smith- 

 sonian 

 Building. 



1885. 

 July 



August 



September 



October 



November 



December 



1886. 



January 



Febrnary 



March 



April 



May 



Juno 



12, 509 

 12, 574 

 14, 520 

 14,001 

 12, 164 

 15, 463 



12, U57 

 14, 398 

 16, 935 

 20, 099 

 15, 034 

 14,471 



6,219 



9, 484 

 8, 313 



6, 487 

 5,774 

 7,550 



6, 235 



6, 373 



8,194 

 9, 318 



7, 261 

 7, 752 



174, 225 



88, 960 



The total number of visitors to both buildings since the record was 

 first kept is given below : 



Year. 



Museum 

 Building. 



Smithsonian 

 Building. 



1881 



*150, 000 

 tl67, 455 

 202, 188 

 195, 322 

 107, 365 

 174, 225 





1882 



152, 744 

 104, 823 



1883 



1834 



91,130 



1W85 (January— June) . 



60, 438 



1885-86 



88, 960 









Totals * 



996, 485 



498, 085 





* Estimated on basis of register. 



t Estimated on basis of attendance from February 8 to December 31. 



Students and Lectures. 



As in previous years, all reasonable applications for permission to 

 study the Museum collections have been granted. Mr. G. F. Matthew 

 studied the Lower Cambrian fauna of New Brunswick in the Depart- 

 ment of Paleozoic Invertebrate Fossils. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Dr. R. 

 W. Shufeldt and others have published paperst based upon material 



* The Museum was open to the public 309 days in the year, 

 t See Part iv of this report. 



